Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 2 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 3 | The tent is extremely stable especially in very high winds as I found out on a few wet and wild nights . |
| 4 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 5 | Just for a change I teamed up with a few fellow warriors to take on the Witchlord in Gremlin 's RPG-for-the-masses , Heroquest . |
| 6 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
| 7 | During my spell on the late desk I went out on no fewer than eleven murders . |
| 8 | I did n't want to leave the Maxteds behind because they had started out as my passengers , so I went back in a few minutes later to see if they were ready to leave . |
| 9 | ‘ He and I grew up in the same town . |
| 10 | ‘ I grew up in the same street as Alex Maskey , ’ said Mr Blair who also knew SF 's Paddy McManus many years ago . |
| 11 | I carried on at the same point in the book and you did not seem to notice . |
| 12 | ‘ I ended up with the same look as with the hot-air brushes , but it can only be used on dry hair . |
| 13 | As usual , the interesting people told me to piss off , and I ended up with the same old circle of publicity seekers . ’ |
| 14 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 15 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
| 16 | She came back in a few minutes , looking very serious . |
| 17 | If you go twice as fast as something else , and you started out at the same instant from the same spot , you 'd go twice as far — which is what you found . |
| 18 | She looked back through the many pages she had written , and saw the great names glitter there — Proclus , Plotinus , Iamblichus , Ficino , Pico , Agrippa . |
| 19 | ‘ It means of course , ’ she went on in the same level tone , ‘ that you will not be free to make a decision until your uncle dies . |
| 20 | But Dreadnought , let alone all her other weak places , had been holed amidships by a baulk of timber , and before long the water poured into her with a sound like a sigh and she went down in a few seconds . |
| 21 | There was wild thyme growing up here too , and as she lay back for a few blissful moments ' rest its delicate perfume assailed Robbie 's nostrils — another sensory memory to be stored away , she thought wistfully . |
| 22 | And like Kim 'll be the first one to say she gave up after a few months |
| 23 | you just like the idea of bacon cooking you picked up on the same idea . |
| 24 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 25 | We stopped off at a few cafes on the way so that we could stretch our legs . |
| 26 | We grew up in the same turnin' , yer see . |
| 27 | We rolled up at the same time , I on my bike , the Parsons in their BMW . |
| 28 | We went round in the same circles for half an hour and I left feeling a mind-numbing frustration , far worse than anything induced by meetings with the Foreign Office . |
| 29 | We carried on for a few more yards , then retraced our steps down to the main level and back out into the sunshine . |
| 30 | When we finished the tour , we ended up in the same place and he comes back to me with the most beautiful guitar I 've ever seen — handcrafted in under a month ! |